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← 407 SC 432 - Wilds v. State

Wilds v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Futch v. McAllister Towing of Georgetown, Inc. · Cherry v. State · State v. Pagan · State v. Bailey

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A]n alternate theory of liability may only be charged when the evidence is equivocal on some integral fact and the jury has been presented with evidence upon which it could rely to find the existence or nonexistence of that fact.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “During jury deliberations, the jury sent a note to the trial court asking, '[I]f we say [Wilds is] guilty of murder, are we saying he of the three [alone] actually pulled the trigger?'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “going to stick somebody or jack somebody,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.